Writers, Etc. – Session 16

Alliance Française de Delhi 

and

The French Embassy in India

present

Writers, Etc. – Session 16

Anuradha Roy

in conversation with

Arunava Sinha

6^th September 2012, 6.30pm

M. L. Bhartia Auditorium, Alliance française de Delhi, 72 Lodi Estate, New Delhi 110003

Writers, Etc is our literary platform: a space where the written word gets primacy, where written ideas and their practitioners can interact with each other and the general public, coming together to ask pertinent questions and seek their answers: what role does literature play in contemporary societies? How do writers see their responsibilities vis-à-vis the public and, turning that over, how do we see writers? How has the written word adapted to its place among the growing pantheon of varied and addictive forms of cultural transmission? The aim is to encourage a discovery, unencumbered by genre, of all the written oeuvres, ranging from living legends to new and emerging talent.

For our sixteenth session we invite the versatile Anuradha Roy to be in conversation with Arunava Sinha.

Anuradha Roy is a journalist, editor and novelist. She is in the Short List for the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2011 for her novel The Folded Earth. She is an editor and co-founder of Permanent Black, a publishing house started in 2000.

Arunava Sinha is the translator and series editor of the Random House India Classics Series, Bengali. His translations include Chowringhee, My Kind of Girl, Middleman, Striker Stopper.